Abstract :
Web users face considerable fraud, malfeasance, and economic harm that system operators could prevent or mitigate. Although the legal system can respond, regulations have mixed results. The author examines the applicable legal rules that constrain online fraud and the economic underpinnings to identify whether those rules assign responsibility to the parties best positioned to take action.
Keywords :
Internet; fraud; security of data; user interfaces; Web user; legal system; online fraud; Costs; Economics; Electronic commerce; Internet; Law; Legal factors; Risk analysis; Virtual enterprises; Communications Decency Act; Digital Millennium Copyright Act; Internet fraud; fraud regulations; online fraud;
